Feedback: What fell on the Krypton Street post office?

HAS space junk been falling on Holland? According to a report in the newsletter of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety, a 3-kilogram metallic object fell from the sky on the village of Ede, the Netherlands, on 4 March, piercing the ceiling of a post office.

The object, a metallic ball of about 13 by 18 centimetres, was initially thought to be part of a rocket or a satellite that had survived re-entry into the atmosphere. However, when Dutch police sent it to the European Space Agency for investigation, …